NXP partnered with Precise Biometrics, a company that specializes in biometric technology for secure identity authentication. Their high-performance solutions for biometric authentication are used hundreds of millions of times every day, worldwide.

“Our ability to make sensor specific deliveries of our algorithm solution could lead to performance enhancements up to 40 %”, says Henrik Wettin, Product Manager at Precise Biometrics.

Our fingerprint software for smartphones and tablets has been integrated in mobile devices from over 40 leading mobile device manufacturers such as Coolpad, Google, HTC, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Sony and Xiaomi. Precise BioMatch Mobile is the preferred choice among sensor manufacturers who wants to offer the best user experience and security of their products.

According to the announcement the agreement will generate royalty revenue based on actual sales of fingerprint sensors which includes the biometric software however the royalty revenue is volume dependent and cannot be forecasted. The agreement also includes a fee for support and maintenance and the right to integrate and use Precise BioMatch Mobile beginning the second half of 2019.

The biggest boon for the company may be the success of the Huawei Honor 10, which uses Precise BioMatch Mobile with an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor from Qualcomm. The smartphone has sold more than 3 million units in less than 3 months, and Precise plans to continue collaborating with customers focussing on optical and ultrasound sensors.

Hellström also said that the first specification for biometric payment cards is expected from Mastercard before the end of the year, indicating that they could be used commercially and provide Precise with royalty revenues later on in 2019.

The FIDO Alliance has identified newer remote, possession-based techniques including biometric “selfie” matching and government-issued identity document authentication as having the potential to greatly improve the quality of identity assurance for new account onboarding and account recovery. The Alliance has also determined a market need for authoritative guidance, performance evaluation and certifications for their use.

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The Software automatically detects the key facial features, ears, mouth, nose, chin and other biometric data, which is then analysed against the ICAO Algorithms and checked for suitability.

According to the decision of the secretariat administration, all employees and officers in the secretariat will now have to reach office between 9:30 and 9:45 in the morning and mark their attendance by using the biometrics attendance system.

We’ve already made significant product improvements through our tighter cooperation and yesterday we announced a new license agreement with a major sensor supplier in Asia. This confirms that our strategy, to be near the customers, has been successful. At the moment we are a small team, but the plan is to grow with more staff joining over the coming months.

The news comes just a few weeks after Precise Biometrics’ announcement of a change in its business strategy that will see the company focus on the development of multimodal biometric authentication solutions beyond the fingerprint algorithm software that has been its mainstay, suggesting that Precise Biometrics have been doing some very high-level planning over the last couple of months.

The agreement concerns Precise Biometrics’ Precise BioMatch Mobile algorithm software, which will be used to support an in-display fingerprint sensor for mobile devices. It also entails support and maintenance fees, which will take effect in the second half of this year.

Apple Inc will launch a new iPhone tailored for Chinese consumers, media reports said on Monday, a move that industry insiders said showed the US technology giant's urgency to arrest a sales decline in the domestic market due to mounting cost pressure from the China-US trade war.

The new phone will reportedly remove Face ID, the facial recognition system for the iPhone, and instead employ an under-display fingerprint function, news site caijing.com.cn reported, citing sources on the upstream industry supply chain. An industry insider revealed that this is likely to "save on costs."

A structured light laser emitter, the major component of Face ID, would cost several hundred yuan, said a Beijing-based representative who preferred to be anonymous. He told the Global Times on Monday that "only Apple can afford it but that would also affect its sales."

Apple Inc. announced on Wednesday its plan to establish the first design and development accelerator in China to provide technical support for hundreds of millions of developers who work on Apple software in Greater China.

The accelerator is expected to open in Shanghai, a metropolitan city in eastern China, this summer to provide various resources related to app design and development for all developers in the Greater China Region, said Isabel Ge Mahe (Ge Yue), Apple's vice president and managing director of Greater China.

Apple has launched four research and development centers in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Suzhou, employing a total of over 1,000 people dedicated to innovation in hardware, software and services.

"Based on Fingerprints’ recommendations, NXP chose the FPC T-Shape sensor FPC1321 for our Fingerprint on Card solution which is a modified version of their successful mobile technology, placed in a unique and ultra-thin T-shape sensor that integrates smoothly onto a smartcard. We also implemented their accompanying driver software, to ensure verification takes place as quickly and securely as possible, and always within the protected confines of the secure element."

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We also implemented their accompanying driver software, to ensure verification takes place as quickly and securely as possible, and always within the protected confines of the secure element."
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Having served with Precise Biometrics for a decade, Clementson is a veteran of the mobile biometrics industry. He was an engineer with the firm during the heady times of the smartphone fingerprint scanning revolution kicked off by Apple’s launch of Touch ID in 2013, and he was made Precise Biometrics’ R&D Director last September, at a critical moment for the company as it sought to establish its algorithms in innovative in-display sensor solutions while also embarking on expansionary efforts in new areas like smart cards.

Oslo, Norway, 15 July 2019: IDEX Biometrics ASA, the leading provider of advanced fingerprint identification and authentication solutions, is pleased to confirm that one of its Asian customers has achieved cost-effective, mass production standards for biometric smart cards.

This customer has established a strong reputation globally for their ability to manufacture and supply high-quality user authentication and transaction security solutions. Its customers range from financial institutions to governments and business enterprises.

An initial production order has recently been placed with IDEX Biometrics to integrate its SmartFinger® dual-interface sensor within a secure access biometric smart card. This highly durable, cost-effective biometric smart card shares identical manufacturing properties with biometric payment cards.

The manufacturing line now has the maturity and capacity to quickly ramp production of biometric smart cards to millions of units, with very cost-effective, high-yield results.

CEO of IDEX Biometrics, Stan Swearingen, adds: “With the manufacturing standards achieved, and the capacity of the production line, I am confident that biometric smart cards are ready for mass production and volume delivery to customers. The ability to manufacture to these standards with our sensors will be a competitive differentiator for IDEX and will facilitate other card manufacturers around the world to follow.”

Precise Biometrics has signed a license agreement with a leading fingerprint sensor supplier from Asia. The agreement enables the sensor supplier to include Precises’ fingerprint software, Precise BioMatch Mobile, into their under-display sensor solutions for mobile devices.

The agreement will generate royalty revenue based on actual sales of fingerprint sensors which include Precises’ software. The royalty revenue is volume dependent and cannot be forecasted at this point. The agreement also includes a fee for support and maintenance and the right to integrate and use Precise BioMatch Mobile, which will be recognized to commence from the second half of 2019.

“We are pleased to announce this collaboration as it further strengthens our position as a leading technology provider of fingerprint software. This also confirms that our new strategy, to offer customer service, support and product development in Asia in order to strengthen our presence in local key markets, has borne fruit” said Stefan K Persson, CEO of Precise.

About Precise BioMatch Mobile

Precise BioMatch Mobile is our fingerprint software for smartphones and tablets. The product provides the best user experience & security of fingerprint recognition in mobile devices and works with any type of sensor technology. Read more: https://precisebiometrics.com/products/smartphone-tablet/

Best performance for fingerprint recognition in smart cards
Precise BioMatch Card is our powerful algorithm solution for fingerprint recognition in smart cards, providing convenient and secure identity authentication. The solution offers industry leading biometric performance and is optimized for matching fingerprints in constrained computing environments such as Secure Elements. Precise BioMatch Card comes with a matcher for Secure Element (SE), a secure processor chip used on biometric smart cards that provides strong protection against fraud. Our software solution can perform fingerprint matching in a SE, ensuring strong security. Precise BioMatch Card is an efficient solution that supports fingerprint sensors with an area down to 30 mm2.

Chosen by leading vendors
Precise BioMatch Card has been deployed in several trials, including the world’s first contactless biometric payment card from AirPlus International, as well as in the first pilot project in the USA with biometric payment cards carried out by Visa and Mountain America Credit Union.

Great flexibility through modular design
The modular design offers customers great flexibility through the ability to optimize and select functionality based on implementation requirements. Due to the modular design, it is possible to split the algorithm into extracting and matching, where the sensitive matching is executed in the very constrained environment of a Secure Element.

Fits any solution with Secure Element
Our fingerprint software for smart cards can be used in any solution where a Secure Element is required for sensitive operations, such as payments. The algorithm solution is based on Precise Biometrics’ long experience in developing algorithms for small sensors and constrained environments. Supporting the core extractor and matcher, Precise BioMatch Card come with a variety of helpful tools, such as an image quality assessment module, API sample code, guides for easy integration and evaluation software.

The Five-O is an FBI-certified FAP 50 scanner, and provides fingerprint enrollment and verification in a compact, energy-efficient form factor. The device weighs in at less than 200 grams, which makes it ideal for the collection of fingerprints while in the field.

“Our Light Emitting Sensor technology is enabling a variety of new devices due to its size, durability, ease of use, and low power requirements,” added Integrated Biometric Executive VP David Gerulski. “This combination has energized our partners to design devices unimaginable just a few years ago.”

That sensor technology was used to build IB’s ultra-thin FAP 30 scanner, which was released in June. The company’s various solutions were also recently deployed in a SIC Biometrics handhelds designed for law enforcement.

For Corvus, the ID Sleeve is the latest addition to the Tetrad line of products, which previously integrated an Identiv card reader in an effort to increase its appeal to border control officials.

Identiv and Corvus have announced a partnership to integrate the Identiv 4501 contact and contactless smart card reader board into the Corvus Tetrad biometric border patrol solution.

Corvus launched the Tetrad, a modified version of its Corvus Sleeve, with an Identiv card reader in January. The smart card reader from Identiv supports near field communications (NFC) and security standards including contact ISO/IEC 7816, and contactless ISO/IEC 14443.

“We are committed to delivering the most secure, innovative solutions to help protect our borders,” said Jeff Kormanec, CEO of Corvus Integration. “Partnering with U.S.-based Identiv allows us to bring one of the most secure—and powerful—portable biometric devices to market utilizing the latest smart card technology. We look forward to extending our partnership with Identiv and bringing more handheld biometric innovations to market to reliably identify users and better secure our borders.”

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